Accidentally created a virus?

Question

I\'ve seen it happen reasonably often: I write an application in Delphi and when I compile it, the virus-scanner tells me that I\'ve created a virus and then immediately del

Answer 1

I've only seen this happen with assemblers. For example, MASM32 actually warns people that it might trigger virus scanners since the EXEs are so small (and/or some viruses are written in assembly). My McAfee scanner flagged some of the example programs as viruses.

This should only happen for virus scanners that have a "looks suspicious" analysis mode.